Monthly Archives: November 2016

By: Brock Peterson Blue Medora provides over 100 dashboards out of the box across the numerous vROps integrations. These dashboards cover everything from compute, storage, and network layers, to converged ecosystems, databases, and application environments. In this blog, we will explore the best compute (ie: server) layer dashboards. Specifically, we will highlight the top three The post Top Three Server Dashboards in vRealize Operations appeared first on VMware Cloud Management .

I recently attended the Orlando VMUG Usercon and had been discussing many of the great features of the vSphere 6.5 release that was announced at VMworld Barcelona. I began to chat with Rob P., an attendee of the conference, about VCSA backup.

VMware has announced that VMware vSphere 6.5 has gone general available this week. Now installing VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 (VCSA) is even easier as the requirement for the client integration plugin has been removed and now the VCSA appliance is delivered via an ISO image with an installation wizard that’s been broken up into two stages.

One of the methods of upgrading VMware ESXi 6.0 to 6.5 is via ISO (or CD-Rom). Most of you probably don’t use much CD-ROMs and CDs, but servers, especially in small client’s environments usually don’t have KVM, iPMI, ILO, Drac… so one of the options is still to upgrade via CD-ROM.

So, today I was making certain changes on my password policies on vSphere 6.5 and I ran into an interesting issue. I had created a user in the SSO domain (vmware.local), called as happycow@vmware.local and I tried to login to web client with this user. However, the login failed with the error: Invalid Credentials.

Resource contention is one of the most critical issues in any virtualized environment. When contention occurs, applications slow down and your users are affected. Up until now two different methodologies have been employed to mitigate the risk of contention, with varied results. But now I want to introduce you to the new “game changing” method The post Predictive DRS appeared first on VMware Cloud Management .